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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Appian Way of America
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Granite Attraction Stories of the Pikes Peak Highway and Summit
Author: Eric Swab
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ISBN: 9781943829347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book begins in 1888, with the first efforts to get wheeled vehicles and their passengers to the summit of Pikes Peak. 15 years earlier, the U. S. Army established a weather station at the top of the mountain and manned it all year round with human observers. These two activities have resulted in the mountain being an attraction for visitors, innkeepers, skiers, hunters, and fishermen. Individuals and corporations have been motivated by the challenge of the highway to get their horseless carriages, automobiles, race cars, motorcycles, bicycles, basketballs, wheelbarrows, peanuts, and pianos to the top of the mountain. People have attempted to get rich by selling a piece of the mountain. The summit has been the site of experiments in meteorology, aircraft engine design, and human physiology. It has been the host of numerous proposals for sheltering those visitors and residents. Over the years five structures have been built for this purpose. There have been several struggles for control including an attempt to homestead the summit. It has been the source of tall tales, stories of hardship, and of failure. The book includes 13 maps and is illustrated with 123 images, most of them vintage photographs, many that have never been published before.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781943829347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This book begins in 1888, with the first efforts to get wheeled vehicles and their passengers to the summit of Pikes Peak. 15 years earlier, the U. S. Army established a weather station at the top of the mountain and manned it all year round with human observers. These two activities have resulted in the mountain being an attraction for visitors, innkeepers, skiers, hunters, and fishermen. Individuals and corporations have been motivated by the challenge of the highway to get their horseless carriages, automobiles, race cars, motorcycles, bicycles, basketballs, wheelbarrows, peanuts, and pianos to the top of the mountain. People have attempted to get rich by selling a piece of the mountain. The summit has been the site of experiments in meteorology, aircraft engine design, and human physiology. It has been the host of numerous proposals for sheltering those visitors and residents. Over the years five structures have been built for this purpose. There have been several struggles for control including an attempt to homestead the summit. It has been the source of tall tales, stories of hardship, and of failure. The book includes 13 maps and is illustrated with 123 images, most of them vintage photographs, many that have never been published before.
Colorado Scenic Guide
Author: Lee Gregory
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ISBN: 9781555660628
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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ISBN: 9781555660628
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Hobbies
Author: Otto C. Lightner
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Sunset
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
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Motor
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Reader's Digest Travel Guide USA.
Author: Reader's Digest Association
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Now anyone who is planning a trip to see the USA can leave those piles of travel books and brochures at home. The 198 easy-to-read and completely up-to-date road maps in Travel Guide USA are organized geographically and are augmented by more than 5,000 site descriptions, each number-keyed to its map location.
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Now anyone who is planning a trip to see the USA can leave those piles of travel books and brochures at home. The 198 easy-to-read and completely up-to-date road maps in Travel Guide USA are organized geographically and are augmented by more than 5,000 site descriptions, each number-keyed to its map location.
The Masthead
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Category : Editorials
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Category : Editorials
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Backpacker
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Frommer's Colorado
Author: George McDonald
Publisher: Prentice Hall Travel
ISBN: 9780671866549
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Frommer's takes readers to the Mile-High City of Denver, to the sophisticated resorts of Aspen and Vail, and to small towns that seem straight out of the Old West. Each section features details on sports from white-water rafting to skiing, plus useful maps and full coverage of accommodations and dining.
Publisher: Prentice Hall Travel
ISBN: 9780671866549
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Frommer's takes readers to the Mile-High City of Denver, to the sophisticated resorts of Aspen and Vail, and to small towns that seem straight out of the Old West. Each section features details on sports from white-water rafting to skiing, plus useful maps and full coverage of accommodations and dining.